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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Taiwanese; learning French, German
  • 45, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • I don't really like it but....engineering.
  • More or less like a scientist but enjoy more the self-edu...
  • From Taiwan
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Go with the flow!!

ABOUT ME

Need a walk or a talk? Find me together!! Summer is always a good time for them! (Yeah, it's seasonal!) I enjoy a lot of meeting people, listening to their stories, and telling my stories.

Don't worry about my presence in Monroeville. I've never been there in my life. It's just my lovely internet server:) Just ask!!

Oh, yeah, about ME!? It depends on how do you see me, not on how I describe you about me. Respect, Love, and Peace!

I'm not a typical engineer or, oh, yes, sometimes I engineer my life. I try to follow all my feelings and to make an obervation of my reactions to know about myself. Sometimes I make decisions out of my ordinary life range to see how I feel but within some safety limits. Life is treasurable.

I want to say myself open-minded but after I met lots of people I would leave the right to the others:)

PHILOSOPHY

Do it, then you can tell yourself "I did." Others are just excuse.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A friend suggested me that CS is a way to meet interesting people. I host, I go out for a drink. To stay in someone's couch.....I would leave it as a challenge for 2010:) (or 2011)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Was in lots of Brussels CS events. It's easy to meet people and to start a conversation...

Interests

-Anything to make a better world. But I am not an aggressive green terrorist. Calm, rationality, and practice are more my ways.
-Nature
-Cycling
-Rock climbing (I'm a beginner but I just get addicted to it!!)
-Kayaking
-Speaking
-Clubbing, well it's dancing.
-Reading

  • dancing
  • instructor
  • drinking
  • clubbing
  • reading
  • billiards
  • socializing
  • cycling
  • kayaking
  • scuba diving
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • biology
  • engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie
-Before sunrise
-Before sunset
-Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
-Snatch!
Music
-electro
-Macy Gray
-Salsa
-Fado
Books
-Dice Man

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In the hot afternoon in Ko Lanta, Thailand, I dropped my diving training in a pool, a 4x5 sqmeters little pool with the water high to my chest. I was fully equipped and kneeling down in the water. When the instructor told me to remove my regulator from my mouth, I had my eyes wide-open and my head shaking. "No, I'm not letting go my regulator! No!" For 10 minutes, he tried to give signs under water "you, look at me, remove your regulator." I looked at the deep blue on the other deeper side of the pool and felt my heart beats at its full speed. My brain cannot think anymore. My hand gave a very definite sign. I didn't even remember what it meant when I signed it. It just came by itself. So I stood up in the water as if I woke up from the nightmare. I love to swim but I cannot trust the scuba and everything the PADI video tried to threaten me is going to happen under water. Or the infinite deep blue told me too many stories about the ocean. I'm glad that I didn't study marine biology.

That night I felt incredibily relived. Great to know my own limit. Let's celebrate!

The day before, I did rock climbing, all the way to the top and enjoyed the view. Then I fell in love with it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to master English. I just hate myself not being able to express my ideas precisely in English.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan

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